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31st annual Meeker Classic sheepdog trials start Sept. 6
MEEKER | There’s always something new happening at the Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship Trials and this year is no exception. There are new workshops, a photography competition to complement the annual art contest, and a whole new take on the lamb cook-off. In its 31st year, the Meeker Classic continues[Read More…]
Easter Egg Hunting…
Hoops for Charity champions give to local non-profits
MEEKER | These are the champions of the 2016 Hoops for Charity 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament held Dec. 20 and hosted by the ERBM Recreation & Park District. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to each division winner’s charity of choice. Not pictured are the third-fourth grade girls’ “Thunderbolts”[Read More…]
A crowd at fishing day …
Meeker’s annual family free-fishing day was a huge success as close to 200 men, women and mostly children took part in the fishing event Friday at Meeker’s Circle Park, located across the bridge from Meeker Town Park. Colorado Parks and Wildlife stocked the pond with 300 fish for the event[Read More…]
Work underway on Meeker Veterans Community Center
MEEKER I The public may have seen construction work going on at the Veterans of Foreign Wars building at 290 4th St. and Main Street across from the Mountain Valley Bank in Meeker This building was purchased in March 2015 due to some very generous donations. The projects are being[Read More…]
500 attend 9Health Fair…
The line was not terrible, but the flow was consistently busy on Saturday morning during the annual 9Health Fair, held at Meeker Elementary School. Margie Joy, the Pioneers Medical Center public information officer and the Pioneers Healthcare Foundations’s executive director, said Monday that roughly 500 persons attended the fair for[Read More…]
The hunt is on…
A little late in starting, but the kids didn’t care Saturday at Elks Park in Rangely during the annual Rangely Elks Club Easter Egg Hunt. Hundreds of kids were on hand, and they made fast work of finding the hundreds of Easter eggs set out for them as part of[Read More…]
Easter Egg hunts…
NOTE: This article is from 2016; please check the online edition (link in bar above) for current information! There will be Easter egg hunts for the kids in Meeker and Rangely on Saturday. Rangely will kick off the day’s activities at Elks Park with members of the Rangely Elks Club[Read More…]
Breakfast with Santa…
Zacharia (left) and Nicholas (right) Godwin had the chance Saturday morning to talk with Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus at the annual Meeker Lions Club’s Breakfast with Santa, held at the Fairfield Center in downtown Meeker. Several hundred persons were fed between 8:30 and 11 a.m., and hundreds of children[Read More…]
Free breakfast with Santa on Saturday
MEEKER I For those hungry folks in the Meeker area on Saturday morning, the Meeker Lions Club will be serving a free breakfast from 8:30 to 11 a.m. at the Freeman E. Fairfield Center at 200 E. Main in downtown Meeker.
Several people drop in as VFW and Ladies’ Auxiliary, Lions and Legion host open house
MEEKER I The new home of Meeker Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 5843, VFW Ladies Auxiliary No. 5843 and American Legion Post No. 74 had several visitors Tuesday as the groups held a combined open house for folks interested in seeing the facility or interested in joining one of[Read More…]